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• As we saw in our lesson about Syriac, Syriac is a massively important and influential dialect of Syriac, going from several centuries B.C., going right through the times of Jesus and beyond, being used for writing contemporary histories of the Crusades as late as the 1200s and 1300s, and has continued in use ever since.
• With the importance of the Syriac dialect of Aramaic being what it is, and with the classic historian Eusebius (“an extremely well learned Christian of his time”, as we read earlier) recording that the communication between King Abgarus and Jesus and the disciples was written in Syriac, there can surely be no doubt that Jesus knew Syriac, and used it for communication. Should it not be expected, then, that the teaching of Jesus and the disciples would be first written in Syriac, the most important dialect of Aramaic in the first century?